He watched his wife lift her skirt to many men.
He lived through the humiliation.
He ate her bitter words routinely.
He faced her rejections nightly and he sniffed the smells of other men knowingly.
He perfected the art of saying NOTHING. He was so good at it that when his kids did hear his voice, they ran.
On his mother’s death bed, she said “My son, please do me a favour. Leave that woman. You can’t go on like this without killing yourself or someone else”.
He was shocked. Surely the medication was messing with the old woman’s head.
He could go on! And he did.
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